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Personalize Your Plate This National Nutrition Month

Lanier Dabruzzi, MS, RD, LD
Hands adding garnish to bread

 

Every time you choose a meal or snack, you are “personalizing” your plate. We’re all different, and our choices are shaped by many factors, not only taste preference, but more complex factors, too, like access to food, culture and tradition. There is no one size fits all approach to fitness and health.

For example...

Plowing Through, Part 3: A Series on Mental Health

Part III

Access to healthcare in rural communities is often limited, mental health even more so. South Carolina Farm Bureau recently announced a new program called SC AgriWellness that will bring mental health services into farmers’ homes.SC AgriWellness, administered by First Sun EAP, will make counseling services...

Plowing Through, Part 2: A Series on Mental Health

Part II

For the last five years, farm income has been slashed in half from weak markets and severely depressed commodity prices and now farmers across America are facing the same struggles and stress as Josh. The mental health problem in rural communities has been highlighted even more recently as farmers are dealing...

Plowing Through, Part 1: A Series on Mental Health

Part I

Sixty-eight and a half inches: that’s how much rain fell on Baxley Family Farms from September 27 until December 7 of 2015. Before that, the fifth generation farm in Georgetown had been riding a wave of good commodity prices and strong markets. Their farm was growing, after all, “it takes more to make more.”

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Forx Farm Gouda

Margaret N. O’Shea
Three people posing with wheels of cheese

From "Say Cheese"
SC Farmer, Fall 2018 

SOUTH CAROLINA’S CHEESE-MAKING CULTURE IS CREATING A REMARKABLE ARRAY OF TASTY PRODUCTS.

Ron and Tammy Lubsen make artisan Gouda cheese at Forx Farm in Anderson County, a lush green property they named for Devil’s Forks Creek, which runs nearby. Some other keepers of sheep and...

Blue Moon Specialty Foods

Margaret N. O’Shea
Industrial mixer blending ingredients

From "Say Cheese"
SC Farmer, Fall 2018 

South Carolina’s cheese-making culture is creating a remarkable array of tasty products.

“A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou singing beside me in the wilderness . . .”

One poet’s idea of a picture-perfect life centuries ago sounds today like a passable picnic that would...

Milk Leads the Way in Nutritional Value

Nicole Yon, R.D.
Various containers of milk

When new products hit the shelf sometimes we for some reason mistake them as better than their predecessors. As a dietitian, I am often asked, “shouldn’t I be drinking {insert alternative milk beverage here}.” As more and more alternative milk beverages have been introduced on the market it’s easy to believe that these...

Celebrate Summer with Ice Cream

It's the first day of summer, and what better way to celebrate than with a frosty treat! Did you know it takes about 3 gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream? 

Use Certified SC Grown strawberries in this recipe to make it extra special and sweet.

From The Golden Taste of SC

1- 6 oz. package strawberry...

It's Beef Month in South Carolina

Nicole Yon, R.D.

June is beef month in South Carolina, so all month long we’ll be bringing you delicious recipes and helpful information about this protein powerhouse!

To kick off our series, we’ll hear from Nicole Yon, R.D., Saluda County Young Farmer and farm wife, about the many health benefits of including beef in a balanced diet...